Last Saturday I made a new batch of home-made shampoo. It's a cool recipe I found here. This time I tried it with 3 parts distilled water and 1 part castille soap (the jajoba oil is mixed in with the soap already).
I like this shampoo as much if not better than commercial shampoos. Plus it cheaper and you know what's in it. Another reason I've gotten interested in home-made products is that they're more environmental and getting closer to the local economy model (as opposed to relying on corporations for everything in life).
I know, I'm still buying the ingredients from the store, but I've taken the first step and eliminated the commercial shampoos. The next step would be making my own soap, then making my own olive oil for the soap. Ideally, I'd either grow my own olives (unlikely), or know the people that grow the olives/make the olive oil. The idea is to know as much as you can about what's being made and who's making it. I think that too often, people just switch to products with the word "green" stamped on it.
There's a lot more going on than the surface appearance. Let's face it, we, the average "consumers", don't know hardly anything about what resources are being used up. You can't fix the problem just by switching from using one type of resource to the point that it's gone to using an alternative resource to the point where it's gone. That's what corporations do; use things in bulk. Whatever is cheaper to make or comes with a bigger payoff. What's needed to be truly environmental is to know what resources are available locally. < /tangent >
Anyways, I replaced the shower head to a water saving one (finally). Our house is not as environmentally friendly as it could be, and I want to work on that. In my spare time, haha. I also found some recipes for home-made conditioner and laundry detergent that I want to try. I'll post about the results :)
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